I ran into the following problem in a calculation involving permutations.
Let $[n] = \{1,...,n\}$, and assume that $[n]$ is partitioned into equivalency classes. That is, $[n]$ is the disjoint union ...

Suppose I have two random partitions of $N.$ ("random" really means "the cycle type of a random permutation", but if there is an answer with any definition, I am interested). The question is: what is ...

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Let $S_n$ be the symmetric group. Recall that the number of inversions of a permutation $\sigma\in S_n$ is the ...

Suppose $ S_{n,N} $ be the set of $n$ elements with $N$ many cycles where $N$ is proportional to $n$. $U_{n,N}$ is an element picked randomly from this. It is known that the length of any cycle cannot ...